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Drachm - Asklepiades, son of Demados
| Issuer | Erythrai (Ionia) |
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| Year | 325 BC - 315 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (325 BC - 315 BC) |
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Erythrai occupied an uncomfortable position throughout the fourth century, caught between Athenian ambitions and Persian authority before Alexander's campaign reshuffled the entire Aegean order. These magistrate-signed drachms — naming both the issuing official and his father — reflect a civic administration reasserting its identity during precisely that unsettled transition, somewhere between Macedonian liberation and the chaos of the Diadochi. The dual naming convention is unusually formal for a coin of this module and points to a magistracy of some local prestige.